The RoboCup Challenge-97 offers a set of three fundamental challenges,
focused on learning, real-time planning, and opponent modeling.
Learning and real-time planning of multi-agent systems were chosen as
the first set of challenges because they are essential technical
issues for RoboCup, as well as for general AI systems using a
multi-agent approach. Together with the physical agent challenge,
these challenges will be be a basis for the RoboCup Challenge-99, and
for longer research enterprises.